medicare open enrollment. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. but it never hurts to see if you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. ♪ open enrollment ends dember 7th. so now's the time. visit care.gov or call 1-800-medicare. >> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. to quote a famous movie line, "what we've got here is a failure to communicate." propublica notes homeland security spent $430 million on radios tuned to a secure channel so employees of custom, border patrol, coast guard, fema, tsa and other agencies could better communicate with d.h.s. in a crisis. but inspector general report says no one seems to know how to use them. just one of 479 homeland security employees surveyed could figure it out. 72% did not know the channel existed. 25% knew it, but were not able to find it. 3% could find the older common channel not the current one. homeland security says it will standardize the radio policy but it's rejecting the recommendation to giv